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Happy Birthday, BZ. Great informative site for gay men that is increasingly running foul of western governments that are increasingly turning authoritarian. Is a good reminder to me that freedom is something we always have to work fight for. Special wishes to the owner @rawTOP for starting the site, and all the ops and moderators who keep this site going.

I love your brilliant question, @nanana and thank you 💜for the courage to post it. Tough facts like the one you posted - EU having more measles cases right wing Texas, and and even Ontario my beloved province not far behind, - makes us questions our beliefs: Is the US really more right wing/conservative than the EU or Texas more than Ontario. I prefer to formulate the question in a way that doesn't pit one against the other - who is worse, but rather helps people realize the areas we think are tolerant ( EU, Canada, Ontario) have their own unique struggles with the same intolerance that is rising in and now plagues the United States. Great insight @fuckholedc and @SomewhereonNeptune. More research and info is needed on this great topic.

Very interesting. I did not know that sexual histories where permissible in civil cases of sexual harassment and consent in the U.S. It seems strange that the law would allow for such histories in cases of harassment rather that the more serious charge of rape but the Law is what it is and it is good to be aware of it!

By right, I was referring to rights from a moral and ethical perspective rather than legal or social rights. I am not a practicing lawyer but find it hard to believe that any court in our day and age, except in Islamic jurisdictions, would ask or allow for questioning that requires a defendant to reveal his sexual behaviours including the number of partners etc he has had. I believe such questions are not acceptable even in rape cases. He wouldn't be asking those questions if he was comfortable taking PrEP.

[think before following links] https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/11/11/pope-francis-and-same-sex-unions-why-im-not-celebrating/

The implications of Signed declarations are overrated. You can always claim you did not read the entire document and did not understand the full implications of it. You could also claim it was written in a language different from your native tongue, i.e. you don't speak very good English etc. - if you have any immigrant background. Or, you could claim the nurse just asked you to sign somewhere and you did, and never read the questionnaire. Honestly, no one has the right to question you about your sexual behavior except for a priest. Even a court of law cannot, realistically, ask you how many people you have slept with in the past week/month etc. Ultimately, only you can make the decision about your life and sexuality. Have you ever thought of having a gay bf who is into bareback sex like you and also like you wishes to be monogamous due to convictions or fear of diseases. It would minimize the risk of the diseases and infections that scare you, and yet let you enjoy bareback sex in a limited way.

Was the late pope Francis a friend of the gays or not really. What will his legacy be with regard to gay rights? Will the "blessing" by a priest of a gay couple allowed by the Declaration: Fiducia Supplicans under his reign be his lasting legacy as the document that ushered in ecclesiastical and liturgical acknowledgement and eventual acceptance of homosexuality, Or will he be remembered for his anti gay policies: such as referring to transexual rights as a nuclear bomb that threatens society and opposing the acceptance of gay priests to the Seminary?

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Option D - I love getting fucked as I love the sensation of sex and the fact that a Top Man is pounding me. It's the chemistry with the guy on Top of me that gets me wet and going. I guess I am an emotional bottom.

Conservatives apparently have similar traits wherever they are. Home grown Orban wannabe Vivek Ramaswamy also went to Law School on a Soros Foundation Scholarship, even though he was already a millionaire, and then hired paid writers to scrub this information off his Wikipedia page² , and repeatedly attacked Soros and his family in online social media posts³. One of his social media posts stated, “Money more than talks in the Biden White House: George Soros’ son has visited more than *14 times,*” observed Ramaswamy in an Instagram post last month. “Cronyism leads to corruption. Republicans should be the party that wants to keep mega-money out of politics. But career GOP politicians dependent on their sugar daddies can’t say it.” ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. [think before following links] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ramaswamy-already-millionaire-he-accepted-soros-award-he-said-he-needed-pay-law-school 2. [think before following links] https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/vivek-ramaswamy-soros-fellowship-immigration-rcna102813 3.[think before following links] https://www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism/fox-host-vivek-ramaswamy-pushes-antisemitic-trope-against-alex-soros

I would say more like the sub . Found this on the internet.

Other Nations have contributed disproportionately to world issues when they where world Powers, and the US benefited immensely from it. World War II was only won because India funded the war effort through the "British Empire" and Russia sacrificed 50 million men for defeating Nazism. WW -II helped the US build its industrial capacity and surge ahead, and neither Russia nor India where ever compensated for their war efforts. Being a World Power, comes with responsibilities and since India and Russia where the primary world powers in that era, it was natural that they did what needed to be done. Since the US took over as a world power eventually become a Superpower after the collapse of the Soviet Union: it is only fair that it foots the bill for US defense and military goals, and world security.

Option 3: For me, its always the act of getting fucked by a Top more than getting loads or the sensation . I always find Top Men so fascinating and sexy - Just always have. Straight men always say how they find women and their bodies so fascinating; for me its always Men and a Top when he fucks is what really gets me when it comes to sex.

This is what happens when you try to reinvent the wheel. RFK is such a rich brat. If he has all these concerns about vaccination and medicine, why not get a degree or maybe a diploma? in medical sciences/vaccination, and then offer your opinions, the way men and women have for the past 300/400 years in the western world. The process of getting a degree, will open up his mind to the complexity of the issues at stake, and also rectify any errors in his own thinking and ally fears that he clearly has about vaccination. Rich people like RFK are such a pain in the ass. Rich people without an education and with vain bodies — and a desire to show them on social media, are the worse and just plain dangerous. Ugh.

More than age, I find it is the Pandemic that has really changed it for me. I am way more internally —anxious and stressed, and one of the first casualty of mental stress is the gut system and associated mechanism including control and feeling of pleasure inside, and behind as well. I have always been scared of catching the Virus, and even though the imminent danger of CoVID is over, atleast for the moment, monkeypox still exists. I fear CoVID has made me into less of a bottom. 😔

But we want to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Yes, we need to eliminate the profit oriented lies, half truths that are in our knowledge base but should we , perhaps out of frustration that the robber baron corporatists have been imposing on us, deny the basics and foundation of our modern understanding of medical science and knowledge. Can it be denied that if where it not for vaccines, in our recent history, majority of the human population would have struggled with a lot of more disease and death than we did since the acceptance and use of Vaccines as a way of preventing some disease. Vaccines are safe. The human population has shown to use vaccines without any adverse effect. I and majority of the guys on here, I believe, are all ears and up for it.

I object, Sir. I and the majority of ladies on this sight are god-fearing and gay. Is it really balking if we beg to different and point out the probable errors in your views? The two health issues, contaminants in the food chain and vaccines are not mutually exclusive, but can be worked on together to ensure better health outcomes. Reducing the number of contaminants (chemicals, micro plastic etc) in the food suppy chain and using vaccines for diseases that already exist will keep us at our healthy best. I am unsure of the real cause of Polio, and if chemicals where the real cause. I am willing to concede that human interventions aka agricultural chemicals are likely to have influenced/accelerated the growth and development of the polio virus—co-relation rather than causation. However, unfortunately, that is history and we cannot put the genie back into the bottle. We have to work with what we have; vaccinees for existing conditions and elimination of contaminants seem like the most reasonable and prudent approach to take.

How people can be so misguided is beyond me. Which world does Robert Jr live in. Assuming he grew up in the US and was educated there and not in some Soviet republic isolated from the rest of the world, a brief reading of the medical history of his country would impress on him the importance of vaccines. For e.g., in the US, children and even President Franklin Roosevelt struggled for life and death with the Polio virus and until a vaccine was invented and polio was eradicated in 1979 made life of ordinary mortals including Presidents a living hell! Antibiotics and Vaccines revolutionized human medicine systems, and greatly increased our life span and protection against diseases. He is really strange; Appearing semi nude on Instagram for his wife's and daughter's beauty line. Clearly he likes to sell stuff and is not a very good republican role model. [think before following links] https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/us-news/rfk-jr-appears-naked-in-video-posted-by-wife-cheryl-hines/ Unfortunately, that is one of the sickest aspect of the the medical and health/pharmaceutical industry. There is money to be made by making people sick or killing them.

Thank you for sharing this very interesting study. China is, sadly, not a bastion of free thought and has not gone down the path of freedom both political and social, even though it has strived to create greater economic freedoms for its people. Gay people in present day communist China face more oppression than their forefathers would have under the Emperors in the 2nd century before Christ! Queer people or Eunuch as they are referred to in modern English had more freedom and opportunities to be themselves in ancient China, unlike the present day government which cracks down on "sissy men" — e.g. the dictate by President XI against "effeminate behaviours" on Chinese state run TV. Queer chinese men also called eunuchs where part of the royal family and elite class including the imperial bureaucracy and often where the most powerful group in traditional Chinese society. I don't believe change in China is going to happens sans TikTok. Change in Chinese attitudes both social and governmental are more likely to come through freeer exchange of ideas through apps like TikTok rather than without it. The study does has some major pitfalls. It is not peer reviewed, and just proves that there are fake accounts on TikTok, who push the Communist party world view. The Study seems to have a strange accusation against TikTok in page 21, "Those who use TikTok are more likely than Instagram and Youtube, to see China as a travel destination". Looks like the authors of the study seem to think that it is morally wrong to see China as a destination worthy of Travel presumably because its 4000 or more years of civilization is not protestant christian, and the Chinese people are not considered "white" - their civilization is not worth a trip. Was there a study to see how pro US or UK governmental views are pushed forward by apps such as Youtube or Instagram, governmental views which serve the industrial-military complex of the US establishment rather than the average American citizen or the common good of people around the world?

Is there really any crediable and substantial evidence that TikTok is actually sharing data with the Chinese government, since its main servers are located in the US and Singapore?

Does the ban on the social media app, TikTok violate traditional U.S. and Western understandings and commitment to free speech and capitalism?

The process has already begun, in Idaho, two days ago. Republican Rep. Heather Scott has proposed a resolution to reject the Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision, and the proposal was moved forward by the Committee and will come up for a public hearing. If passed by the Idaho legislature it goes to the Supreme Court, where it doe not have any legal weight but does carry symbolic weight. [think before following links] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/idaho-lawmakers-move-to-restore-natural-definition-of-marriage-bring-back-same-sex-ban/ar-AA1x7Nio

Regan was truly a monster. There is an interesting excerpt from the book, The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser, on Slate., on how he actually brought about the gay holocaust that AIDs was back in the 80s and 90s. [think before following links] https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/03/the-reagans-surrounded-by-discreet-gays-still-did-little-to-help-with-aids.html

Apologies for the late reply; I ,unfortunately, did not see the responses. You have a right to a view, and be pedantic, but I am going to disagree with your view. The oldest mosque in Indonesia is from the 15th century and Malaysia from the 17th century. These nations where colonies of India, before the Anglo Saxon empire started the policy of Indian removal and the Hindu/Indian populations where whipped out of these countries and the native Malaysians and Indonesia given a Muslim identity. While Arabs and Indian Muslims traders did exist in these countries from the 900 onwards, the locals had a tolerant attitude towards all religions and practiced Buddhism, Hinduism, paganism and the new Islamic religion equally and never really converted until the British ran their missionary anti pagan/Hindu campaigns and divided the world into idol worshippers and worshippers of the True God-monotheistic, non idolatrous etc. This is very evidenced from the way in which these countries practice their true religion, and exist. For eg, when the Asian Finance crisis hit East Asia in 1997, the Indonesians immediately fell back to their "ancient gods" and issued a currency note with the elephant headed Hindu god Ganesh's photography to try to appease their ancestral pagan gods. The half elephant, half human god is considered as the god who removes obstacles and the Indonesians had no qualms in praying to their ancestral gods to pull their country out of a crisis. The bank of Indonesia issued a currency note with the pictue of the hindu god ganesha in 1998 the Indonesia leader Ki Hajar Dewantara on the highest currency note of 2000 Indonesian dollars. [think before following links] https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/economy/indonesia-20000-note-with-ganesh-ganpati-muslim-country-rbi-19711 [think before following links] https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note205416.html The Indonesians did not think that their Islamic Arabic brothers or the Islamic God was going to come to their rescue but the Indian/Asian pagan gods. Doesn't sound or look very Islamic to me!

While it is true that the Quoran, like most Holy Books including Toarh of the Jews, Bible of the Christians and Vedic traditions of the Hindus condemns homosexuality, the fact is these religions evolve as well. For eg, the restrictive tribal religion of the Judaic God who only cared about Isrealities, gave rise to a much more tolerant and Universal god of the Christians. The sacrifice loving Vedic religion of which was more tribal and fierce gave rise to a more philosophical and Vegetarian modern Hinduism. The point I am making is all religions evolve. I strongly disagree with the suggestion that Islam and the countries that it has spread to have been anti-LGBTQ. During the Islamic rule over most of west and south Asia, gay culture flourished. In India; the local language in India referred to homosexuality as a hobby of the Muslim rulers( Mughals) and Transexual people particularly thrived. Poems from Persian and part of Iraq during the Mughal times, do openly talk of men loving boys. Even today, crimes against transexual hatred, the way it occurs in the West, is fairly unknown in the Muslim world and often the state will recommend and pay for transexual surgery, for eg in Iran. However, the same freedom is not given to gay people, and the status of gay people has worsened since colonial times when a lot of colonized countries adopted the Anglo-Saxon disdain for homosexuality and incorporated Anglican legal mores into their own code of laws. I unfortunately am not a scholar of Islam and my understanding of it is limited. However, I do know there is a distinction between the Sayings of the prophet vs the Main Book which is the canonical book, and that the anti-gay passages are in the Sayings rather than the canonical book. Interestingly, u mention Islam and Malaysia, two countries that had been Indian for centuries, the abandoned Hindu temples and Buddhist monasteries along with various other factors proving it; which converted to Islam roughly during colonial times. The British not only went and conquered countries, they often changed the religion of the colonies so as to wipe off the proof and influence of the previous colonial power under the rubrics of a war against paganism/heathen/idol worshiping religion, even though the real reason was politics and loot. The anti-gay laws that we now see in Malaysia and Indonesia are partly a result of that as most of Malaysian and Indonesian Islam tends to be like Indian Islam: more moderate. Also, both Malay and Indonesian Islam have debates within their country over other related issues, as well, such as the place of their national heritage including Arabic clothes vs their own national clothes and culture, within Islam. Thus the debate within Islam is not just about LGBTQ rights, but also about other important issues such as national culture, practices, etc, and proves that sometimes there are tough questions to be answered within Islam and it is capable of having that debate.